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Sustainable tourism takes center stage in first-ever travel fair in BGC

Bonifacio Global City, together with the Philippine Tour Operators Association (PHILTOA) and the Department of Tourism, presented a unique travel fair to promote sustainable tourism in “Travel Street:...
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Discover your next destination through the eyes of a local 

Hotel Jen’s new ‘Local Rituals’ activation The urban and quirky Hotel Jen brand, part of the world-renowned Shangri‑La group, inspires guests to Leave Boring Behind and travel like they...
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Czech Pearl Harbor “Dark Blue World” screens in Manila

In commemoration of the historic end of the Second World War in Europe in May 1945, Czech Embassy Manila presented last May 9 Dark Blue...
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TRIBUTE: Cirilo F. Bautista, 76, National Artist for Literature by Alma Anonas-Carpio

        Poet, fictionist, essayist and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista has passed away after a long battle with muscular dystrophy. Cirilo was 76,...
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Losing Face(book)? by Alma Anonas-Carpio

Last of two parts FACEBOOK ITSELF As for Facebook, it has done as Zuckerberg said it would. Users who visit the social network’s Help Center will...
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Use of language: Focus on Baybayin by Alma Anonas-Carpio

The Philippines is an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, with between 120 and 170 distinct languages, according to various scholars. Ours is a nation of...
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This Uncertain Democracy by Joel Pablo Salud

The forces that uphold our dignity as citizens of our nation—art, culture, laws, history, to name a few—are under attack. Not only are we being...
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The Bedan Roar: Roaring against Censorship by Joel Pablo Salud

It was mid-morning of a torrid desert-like Monday, the 23rd of April, when, scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed, an image wooshed past me. I...
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Woman on the verge of a Twitter breakdown by Marie Yuvienco

To those who think that they have heard the last of Kris Aquino now that her brother is no longer President, they can now...
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Ateneo de Naga University Press translates Jorge Luis Borges

by Joel Pablo Salud Author Anthony Burgess once wrote that translation is not only a matter of words. “It is a matter of making intelligible...
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Under the Withered Roof

The tears I dropped on my mother’s casket were wiped off with an off-white handkerchief by a hand filled with bulging veins and dominating wrinkles. I heard a comforting scolding, hinting to me that this man is too long in the tooth to have a high-pitched voice. “Elim,...

Rise in Love

A ping sounded on my phone, and the words blinked on the screen at six in the morning.  “RISE IN LOVE.” I squinted at the screen, half-amused. The message could only be from Kim—always dramatic, always turning a simple morning greeting into something that promised intrigue. I recognized our...

The Man with Horns

Close to the end of my ties with Catharine, I was inconveniently reminded of the time when I learned that I grew up with a father from whom I wasn’t exactly begotten. This—this sudden act of remembrance—happened as she and I had just walked out of a diner...

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